Center Staff and Advisory Board

Center Staff

The Center has gathered a team of experienced practitioners to form a new kind of group practice. Conventional physicians trained in integrative approaches and healthcare providers of traditional medicine, manual medicine, nutrition, mind-body medicine, stress reduction and medical fitness work together to provide the highest level of collaborative, relationship-centered care. All providers are licensed, credentialed and/or board certified in their respective fields.

Click on any practitioner's name to learn more about their background and interests:

The Center Advisory Board

The following individuals, reflecting a wide range of interests and specialties, have made themselves available to us for many needs, including planning sessions, consultations, intellectual support, publicity, fund-raising, lectures and educational programs:

Michael Balick, PhDCurator, Ethnobotany, N.Y. Botanical Garden

Walter BeebeFounding Chairman and President, New York Open Center

Samuel Benjamin, MDFormer Director, Center for Complementary/Alternative
Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Herbert Benson, MDChief of the Division of Behavioral Medicine, Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center, Founding President of the Mind/Body Institute,
Harvard Medical School

Fredi Kronenberg, PhDDirector, The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia
University

Philip J. Landrigan, MDProfessor and Chair, Department of Community and Preventive
Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Director, Center for Children's
Health and the Environment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Mathew H.M. Lee, MD, FACPHoard A. Rusk Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, New
York University School of Medicine

Michel Lerner, PhDPresident and Founder, Commonweal

George Lewith, MDCo-Director, The Center for the Study of Complementary
Medicine, Southampton and London